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2 Sheets-Shem; 1. s. G. GABELL. APPARATUS FOR PURIPYING AND AGING LIQUORS. No. 404.68

Patented June 4, 1889.

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I APPARATUS FOR PURIPYING AND AGING YLIQUORS. No. 404,682. Patented June 4, 1889.

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Nrrnn STATES QOllil-UKQY, OF \VEST YlR-GINIA.

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or COLUMl-RIQL ASSIGNOR, noun) PURIFYING aeeaant'us r'cnsiiaarvme AND acre Liauoas.

SPECHIGATION fbrming part of Letters latent No. 404,682, dated June 4, 1889.

Application filed No 5,1388. Serial No. 272,921. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL G. CABELL a citizen of the United States, residing atWa-shngton, in. the District of olumb'ia, have ;invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Purifying and Aging Liquors; and I do hereby declare the following to be afuh, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use.

the same.

Myinvention relates to improvements in apparatus for purifying, changing, deodorizing, and'modifyi'ng the condition and properties or characteristics of fluids, such as water, mineral and other oils and their distillafes, distilled and fermented liquors, and other analogous liquids which are subject to the catalytic or other effects of magnetism.

m ihe invention consists,esscnt1ally; in an electromagnetic tube or series of magnetic tubes oined together to form a conduit for the passage 0t liquids by gravity or otherwise from a source oil supply to a proper receptacle.

lne lil'vTGIllZlOn also consists in a magnetic conduit consisting of a plurality of legs extending upward from a given plane.

It'also consists in the combination, with a magnetic conduit, of foraminated magnetic diaphragms, and in the combinatioinwith the magnetic conduit, of sediment drums or re-- ceptacles, and in other details enumerated in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in sectlon, of an apparatus made according to my ipvention. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 0 is an inverted or bottom plan. Fig. 4

IS an end elevation, the top being partly. broken away. Fig. 5 is a plan of a diaphragm to be inserted at intervals in the conduit, and Fig. is a sectional detail.

A isthebasc or support. 15 l are sections of an iron onstcel pipe or conduit, firmly attached to said support. This conduit consists, by preference, of a plurality of vertical legsconncctcd together by rel "in-couplings, as shown.

The entire length of the conduit may be are by preference tion at Fig. 5,) for breaking passage for liquids, whereby they inclosed by a coil or to constitute a singlehollow electro-magnet, or each leg may separately constitute a hollow magnet; or, as I prefer and have illustrated, thelegs are connected at the bottom in magnetic pairs by the ,return coupling b, of iron 5 5 or steel, and the pairs of legs are connected at the top by return couplings b','of rubber,

tin, copper, or other non-magnetic material.'-

For trapping and removingthe sedimentary or other impurities, I attach a drum or rev c-eptacle O to the bottom coupling. These reccptacles may be of any suitable form, and

transparent, so that the resultsof the process may be observed.

Petcocks p are provided for drawing off the deposits in {the drums and for flushing the same. Air domes c are attached to the couplings at the top.

At intervals along the raminated diaphragms d conduit place foup and-separating the particles of liquid, so that all parts may pass within the influence of the field of the greatest force, These diaphragms in'ay have any characterof openings best adapted to break up the current in the'conduit, and may be situated at any desired points along the channel; but for convenience of adjustment I have placed them at the joints be tween the pipe-sections and the couplings, indicated in thedrawings. I have shown the conduit as provided with a funnel d at one end and a nozzle d at the other; but obviously it may be coupled in any suitable way! with a source of supply and a storing-receptacle.

it should be understood that the stand or base with which this conduit is connected is no part of my invention, nor is the form or character of any of the parts separately any part of said invention, the essential features of the invention being a magnetic tube or flow or pass through and across a powerful magnetic field. 'lhepractical way of making this conduit is to couple the pa rs of legs at the bottom-an I surround them with spools in the ordinary way of making elcctro-magncts, couple the helix ot insulated wire 5o (1, (shown in eleva- 70,

pairs of? legs at the top, and then connect the Wires ot' the spools together an d with asource of electrici 3 ater is rendered clear and the impurities thereof are destroyed and re moved, petroleum distillates are deodorized or rendered inoitei'isive, and fresh or recently distilled spirits, wine, and other alcoholic liquors a re changed, improyed, and transformed to a condition such as they would acquire from great age by merely passing through my electromagnetic tube or conduit.

Having now described my invention, whatl claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isi 1. In a liquid-purifier, the combination of a plurality of vertically-arranged hollow cores or legs connected together by return-c0111.)- lings and corresponding electromagnetic coils around said cores, substantially as described.

2; In a liquid-puritier, a conduit consisting of a series of tubular sections of magnetic material and an eleetroanagnctic helix surroundin; said sections, the same being connected at the top by non-magnetic material and at the bottom by magnetic material, substantially described.

3. In a liquid-puritier,thecombinationof a hollow core of magnetic material serving as a :2 seaweeconduit for the passage oi liquid, llltOlPOSOtl foraminated diaphragms, and an electroanag netic helix or coil. around said core, substau tially as described.

i. In a li'i uid-purifier, an eleetro-nn'ignetic conduit having a plurality of coupled tubes and foraminated diaphragms at the joints of the coupling, substantially as described.

' In a i'nagnetic purifier, the combination of a series of tubes of magnetic material arranged in pairs, which are connected mag"- netically at their lower ends and non-mag nctically at their upper ends, and a series of electromagnetic helices corresponding with the cores or tubes, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

magnetic tubes, of a sediment drum or receptacle located below and connected with said tubes, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

In. testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL G. CAI'EELIL.

\Vi tn esses:

N. DUMoN'r, WM. M. STOCKBRIDGE.

6. The combination, with aseries of electro- 

